ÿþ<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="Author" content="Services@EducationBangalore"> <meta name="generator" content="Mozilla/4.72 [en] (Win98; I) [Netscape]"> <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache"> <meta name="Description" content="He is"> <meta name="KeyWords" content="Kannada, Karnataka, Bangalore, Sandalwood, Cinema, Movie, Film, Picture, Director, Lyrics, Music, Songs, Celulliod, Chalana, Chitra"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.5 [en] (Win98; I) [Netscape]"> <title>Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar :: Official website</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" alink="#FF0000" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"> <table BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH="554" > <tr> <td><img SRC="images/inside_03.jpg" height=73 width=204></td> <td><img SRC="images/inside_04.jpg" height=73 width=61></td> <td><img SRC="images/inside_05.jpg" height=73 width=289></td> </tr> <tr ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP> <td ALIGN=CENTER COLSPAN="3"><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1></font></font> <table BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 WIDTH="96%" style="font-size: 12pt" > <tr> <td ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#CC0000">Social, Cultural, Literary and Environmental Activities</font></font></b> <p style="text-align: justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Nagathihalli Chandrashekar is greatly involved in socio cultural activities. He founded the Vivekananda Youth Club in his village, Nagathihalli, in 1977. Rural developmental activities such as educating farmers on modern agricultural methods, planting of trees, contributing to the construction of schools, bringing awareness among villagers on primary health care, etc are carried out under the banner of the club.<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify"> <br /> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify"> Chandrashekar has also founded <i> Abhivyakti </i>, a non-profit cultural forum involved in various literary and social activities like publication of books, conducting inter-caste marriages, etc. <i>Abhivyakti</i> has published 33 books so far, of these 21 titles are penned by Chandrashekar himself. Several seminars on varied subjects and workshops have been conducted by this organization. </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify"> <br /> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify"> Nagathihalli Chandrashekar is also an environmental activist. He has actively campaigned for various environmental issues. As part of an environmental movement, he has delivered a series of lectures in villages on the topic of,  Save the Western Ghats. He has also released an audio cassette, <i> Naanu Hadedavva </i>on environmental issues. His deep concerns for the environment finds an expression in his latest film, <i> Mathad Mathadu Mallige </i>[Speak, O Speak Jasmine!].</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify"> <br /> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify"> He has donated a library, computer center and a open air theatre to the primary school of Nagathihalli, where he studied. He is conducting <b>"NAGATHIHALLI VILLAGE CULTURAL FESTIVAL"</b> every year. </font></p> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP>&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP> <p><img src="images/redline.gif" width="500" height="8"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#999999"><br> All Rights Reserved &copy; 2007 www.nagathihalli.com<br> Site Designed and Hosted by Nagathihalli Cine Creations</font></p> </td> </tr> </table> <font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1></font></font></td> </tr> <tr ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP> <td COLSPAN="3"><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1>&nbsp;</font></font></td> </tr> </table> <font face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=-1></font></font> </body> </html>